BURSA, TURKEY
Being held in the same prison, the Peoples’ Leader Abdullah Öcalan, Ömer Hayri Konar, Hamili Yıldırım and Veysi Aktaş were arbitrarily imposed isolation upon since their arrest. Being granted visits by the resistance of the people for a brief period, all requests for a visit have since gone unanswered until the most recent.
After the lawyers of Peoples’ Leader Abdullah Öcalan; Nevroz Uysal, Mazlum Dinç, Cengiz Yürekli and Faik Özgür Erol applied to Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office to meet with their client, they were told that a disciplinary order had been filed on 21 October against the Leader and detained activists.
Öcalan’s lawyers Rezan Sarıca and Nevroz Uysal met with their client on 2 May, 22 May, 12 June, 18 June and 7 August after 8 years. The appeals of the lawyers for a meeting with the Peoples’ Leader have gone unanswered since August 7.
His lawyers were able to meet with the People’s Leader for the first time after an 8-year isolation period on 2 May. Subsequent talks were held on 2 May, 22 May, 12 June, 18 June, and 7 August.
While previous requests were systematically rejected arbitrarily for the same reasons, there had been no positive or negative response since August 7.
İbrahim Bilmez, a lawyer of the Asrın law firm, reminded that the prison administration had given the Peoples’ Leader a disciplinary penalty on 10 July too. Ibrahim drew attention that as soon as the disciplinary penalty had ended on October 21, a new disciplinary punishment was filed.
According to İbrahim Bilmez, other prisoners objected to the disciplinary punishment of the administration except for the People’s Leader. İbrahim Bilmez told Mezopotamya, “Since Mr. Öcalan thinks these disciplinary punishments are political, he does not object to these punishments by adopting a political attitude. Mr. Öcalan is being sanctioned but the legal process is continuing because our other clients object.”
İbrahim Bilmez stated that the disciplinary sanctions imposed on the Peoples’ Leader and other clients have been concealed from the lawyers consciously, making them unable to access the contents of filed motions.
Ibrahim added that the disciplinary sanctions imposed against family visits do not preclude legally the opinion of the lawyer.
